All I know about this picture is that it was taken in Colombia, and that it is simultaneously beautiful and kind of scares me.
Via Ana Maria Rincon’s Flickr photosream.
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March 24th, 2008 | , caterpillars
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Caramba!
Careful !
That could be one of those with poison glands and sharts to inject it.
That should be “shafts” to inject the poison; urticating hairs and spines (setae). From personal experience – the effect of the white caterpillar with violently red hairs in Barrancabermeja is similar to the poison of a 12 in. wide Southern stingray’s barb.
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The South American Lonomia species is probably the most lethal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonomia
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